Unique identifiers assigned to Plant Ontology developer groups

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

Unique identifiers assigned to Plant Ontology developer groups

Every term in the anatomy or developmental stage ontology is identified by a 
unique identifier. Under the conventions that we have already established, the 
syntax of a PO identifier is PO:nnnnnnn, where nnnnnnn is a zero-padded unique 
integer of seven digits.

In order to ensure database integrity, identifiers are never removed. Terms that 
are retired(deleted) from the ontology are moved into the obsolete category. To 
ensure that the same identifier is not used twice, each participating group will 
be assigned non-overlapping ID ranges and listed on this page for documentation 
purposes. These ranges will automatically act as (internal) identifiers for the 
group that submitted the term. If you want the identifiers assigned to your 
group, please send and e mail to po-dev at plantontology.org

Group  	identifier range (from-to)
TAIR 	0000001-0005000
Gramene 	0005001-0010000
IRRI 	0010001-0015000
MaizeDB 	0015001-0020000-->Change group name to MaizeGDB

For the above 4 groups, the range was assigned prior to the award of this 
project http://www.plantontology.org/doc/poc_project.html

Toby Kellogg 	0020001-0025000
Open 	0025001-0030000
Open 	0030001-0035000
Open 	0035001-0040000
Open 	0040001-0045000
Open 	0045001-0050000
Open 	0050001-0055000

Setting your range of numbers within DAG-Edit.

Once you have claimed a set of numbers from the ontology numbers file, you must 
also set these numbers within the configuration file of DAG-Edit. To do this you 
should open DAG-Edit, and chose from the 'plugins' menu the 'DAG-Edit 
Configuration Manager'. Within this window you can now fill in your range of 
numbers, starting in the 'start of id range' line and finishing in the 'End of 
id range' line. Press 'Save Configuration' to save your changes.

In order to avoid conflicts, any new term contributed by the group should carry 
the Ontology term identifier from the assigned range.



It is also an easy way to track the contribution.


Pankaj